tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post7036131314927906616..comments2024-03-06T13:50:29.718+05:30Comments on E's flat, ah's flat too: Is it cause I is wheatish?Rahul Siddharthanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-12116512173710178212007-11-18T12:04:00.000+05:302007-11-18T12:04:00.000+05:30anonymous - thanks for the comment, always nice t...anonymous - thanks for the comment, always nice to get a comment after several months. You seem to have an interesting family history.Rahul Siddharthanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-91015255614900777502007-11-18T07:08:00.000+05:302007-11-18T07:08:00.000+05:30Dark Indians can be extremely beautiful. In fact,...Dark Indians can be extremely beautiful. In fact, two of the most beautiful women I've ever seen were from Sri Lanka (OK, not India, but you get my drift).<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the compliment you paid Amita Malik of the Indian Express. She is one of the great old dames of Indian journalism; they don't make them like her anymore. I'm biased, of course, as she happens to be my aunt. I'm her Pakistani nephew in New York. (It's a helluva family history.)<BR/><BR/>Nice blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-13531064862360677682007-02-11T19:59:00.000+05:302007-02-11T19:59:00.000+05:30Nice post.For me, it is the exact opposite. People...Nice post.<BR/>For me, it is the exact opposite. People tell me all the time that I am too fair and that I could easily pass as a foreigner, and I wish I was a bit darker.Ashes are gone, they blogged herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00826543736617464068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-70756878175550088552007-02-11T00:02:00.000+05:302007-02-11T00:02:00.000+05:30You're right about the metro and tv ads. They seem...You're right about the metro and tv ads. They seem far more natural.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-28107350240900259002007-02-10T18:15:00.000+05:302007-02-10T18:15:00.000+05:30i knew it! you're such a fraud madrasi -- would yo...i knew it! you're such a fraud madrasi -- would you like to be reminded of your 10th std hindi score? :-DTabula Rasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16358094860426062297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-34709396119026238132007-02-10T13:56:00.000+05:302007-02-10T13:56:00.000+05:30szerelem -- well, I don't really follow the catwal...szerelem -- well, I don't really follow the catwalks, I was talking more of ads in the metro stations. (Not all of them were for haute couture or expensive perfume either.)<BR/><BR/>You may be right about the immigrants/colonial ties thing. But I think Italy does have a lot of immigrants -- they keep arriving by the boatload from Africa -- and does have a colonial past, in Ethiopia, Somalia, etc. So it may be more complicated than that.Rahul Siddharthanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-14710818495061795222007-02-10T12:34:00.000+05:302007-02-10T12:34:00.000+05:30It's interesting you mentioned black models in Fra...It's interesting you mentioned black models in France. I think the French houses use black models the most, followed by England and the US. You hardly see any in Italy. So I guess it's also just the societal structure and history. Italy has very few immigrants. On the other hand France has very stong ties with Africa because of its colonial past. <BR/><BR/>Btw, the Beauty Myth is a prtty good read. And brown rice is way better :DSzerelemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17911190230851186924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-58244271538162605702007-02-10T10:54:00.000+05:302007-02-10T10:54:00.000+05:30tr - I prefer brown rice.anant - pseudonyms tend t...tr - I prefer brown rice.<BR/><BR/>anant - pseudonyms tend to go in one direction -- fewer syllables (1 or 2), pronounceable by as many people as possible. Nobody born Dylan or Denver would rename themselves Zimmerman or Deutschendorf either. (And the first "l" in "Tamilselvi" is not really an "l", which means only two linguistic communities in the world can pronounce it.)Rahul Siddharthanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-35992103289580655792007-02-10T10:13:00.000+05:302007-02-10T10:13:00.000+05:30Rahul: have you ever known someone born Neha but ...Rahul: have you ever known someone born Neha but taking on the nom de guerre of Tamil-Selvi ;-) (still can't see to get my smiley right?!)!Ananthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974808252913561726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-84914286675705846962007-02-10T07:52:00.000+05:302007-02-10T07:52:00.000+05:30ps. wondering -- would a good madrasi like you pre...ps. wondering -- would a good madrasi like you prefer 'rice-ish' instead? :-DTabula Rasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16358094860426062297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-32335548770088648612007-02-10T01:19:00.000+05:302007-02-10T01:19:00.000+05:30Anant - true. But I suspect that anchors born wit...Anant - true. But I suspect that anchors born with such names would change them anyway... In fact, most celebrities we know, the world over, don't use the names they were born with.Rahul Siddharthanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-7070682399171816852007-02-09T17:37:00.000+05:302007-02-09T17:37:00.000+05:30Permit me to quote from my own post on some media...Permit me to quote from my own post <A HREF="http://anant-observations.blogspot.com/2007/01/media-matters.html" REL="nofollow">on some media matters </A>:<BR/>``...what about the biases, innate colour consciousness, status consciousness, class consciousness of our media. What is the last time we heard about l'il Shilpa and the ogre Jade from a Karupaiian, or a Manonmani or a Tamil-Arasi? Why is it that the anchors are aways the Nehas and the Nidhis, etc.? Why only wheatish TV anchors?...''Ananthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974808252913561726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-56339437198379609272007-02-09T10:14:00.000+05:302007-02-09T10:14:00.000+05:30tr - well, at least one DP contributor reads this ...tr - well, at least one DP contributor reads this blog.<BR/><BR/>sb - I haven't read that book but I've read articles by her, I know the general trend of her stuff.<BR/><BR/>My impression about Benetton ads (and most "diverse" ads in the US) was just as you say: the dark-skinned ones were there for the sake of diversity or marketing to non-whites. With the ads in Paris (for very expensive products from YSL, Cartier, etc), it seemed like they were there because they fitted in. <BR/><BR/>But that impression could just be me. It could also be that, having decided to go black for marketing reasons, the French advertisers were much better at coming up with a setting that emphasised the black model's good looks. I suspect it's a bit of both -- they're better at providing visual identities for non-whites, but they're also more accepting of other races (as long as they speak French!).Rahul Siddharthanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-5922850044006137332007-02-09T06:09:00.000+05:302007-02-09T06:09:00.000+05:30cosmetics, that featured dark-skinned (African-ori...<I>cosmetics, that featured dark-skinned (African-origin) women (and sometimes men) -- not for the sake of diversity, but because they looked good. And it was not just the advertising: Paris's streets and metro trains are filled with people of all races</I><BR/><BR/>Rahul: While agree with the general trend of your post, I'd say the reason people feature more cloured peopel in their ads is more commercially motivated; they are targeting these people, they'd like them to buy beauty care products.<BR/><BR/>Read Naomi Wolf's <I>The Beauty Myth</I> - have you read it? Just becaue some kind of people start to appear in ads, it is not an indication that they're more acceptable to society at large or that they escape prejudice. It only means they now have a purchasing power they didn't, and the advertisers want a chunk of that money.Space Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-37168660779471056422007-02-09T05:55:00.000+05:302007-02-09T05:55:00.000+05:30ok, i think you need to have this recommended to D...ok, i think you need to have this recommended to DP.Tabula Rasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16358094860426062297noreply@blogger.com